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Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] scsi: mptlan: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member
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On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 18:33:44 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:

> There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare having
> a dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure. Kernel code
> should always use “flexible array members”[1] for these cases. The older
> style of one-element or zero-length arrays should no longer be used[2].
> 
> Refactor the code according to the use of a flexible-array member in
> struct _SGE_TRANSACTION32 instead of one-element array.
> 
> [...]

Applied to 5.13/scsi-queue, thanks!

[1/1] scsi: mptlan: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member
      https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/4e2e619f3c9e

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering